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How Akismet prevented my Mom from leaving her first WordPress comment, and some anti-spam alternatives

| March 15, 2013 | 12 Comments
Last week our agency launched a shiny new custom site for an academic think tank. I showed my mom the new site. “It’s so nice Miriam!” said my ever-objective Mom. She dutifully scrolled up and down the home ... View Post

GenerateWP: Code on the go with reliable code for WordPress Custom Post Types, Taxonomies and more

| January 31, 2013 | 4 Comments
If you're adventurous WordPress developers like we are at illuminea, then you're probably a fan of shortcuts. I'm talking about shortcuts that help you save up on development time without compromising on quality. In our case, we're referring to the code's quality and clarity. That's why I'd like to introduce you to GenerateWP. View Post

Hack: How to use Jetpack’s ShareDaddy plugin without connecting to WordPress.com

| January 30, 2013 | 9 Comments
ShareDaddy was a great social sharing plugin. And then it was integrated into Auttomatic's Jetpack which required connecting our clients' sites to a WordPress.com account which was majorly awkward... since our clients don't have a WordPress.com account (you can read more about our feelings on Jetpack here). So, we went off to ... View Post

HOWTO: Add a custom style to any WordPress widget with a plugin

| August 12, 2012 | 1 Comment
The Problem

On a WordPress site that we recently built, there were several text widgets in use - one for About Us, one for a Facebook Social Plugin, and one for a newsletter signup form.

The problem was that we wanted each one of these text widget areas to be styled slightly differently - some with

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Jetpack WordPress plugin – The new comments and image carousel features almost make me want to use it

| July 22, 2012 | 7 Comments

WordPress.com has limited flexibility and functionality in many ways. For example, you can't add plugins, and you have to sign up to a paid upgrade in order to use ads. Even so, many of us who use and create self-hosted WordPress sites (with WordPress.org), have some serious FOMO when it comes to some of the built-in

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Managing multiple WordPress sites: A review of ManageWP, WPRemote and InfiniteWP (my fave)

| July 6, 2012 | 24 Comments

Over at illuminea.com, we manage over many WordPress websites as part of our WordPress hosting and maintenance service. All of these sites need version upgrades, plugin upgrades, and the rare theme upgrade (since we never use the default WP themes like TwentyEleven). Amazingly, there are 3 services

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How to share a draft with a private URL in WordPress

| May 30, 2011 | 5 Comments
It's been a while since I've been so excited about a plugin. Enough that it inspired me to write a post about it. I've always wanted to share drafts of posts with people before I publish them but didn't want to bother them with "can you log in, look at the post and let me ... View Post

Allow Editor access level to add users in WordPress

| May 29, 2011 | 2 Comments
Recently, a client asked us to allow editors to add users on their WordPress site. They wanted this feature so that the site managers wouldn't be tempted to click on any of the settings, and possibly mess something up. I know this is super specific but it did come up for us so maybe ... View Post

Cool plugin: New York Times style “Next Post” slider for WordPress

| January 12, 2011 | 8 Comments
Who doesn't think that the slider thingy that appears at the end of New York Time's pages with links to other articles is awesome? I've been coveting something like that for our WordPress sites for a while, and now I've found it, in usual wondrous WordPress simplicity: ... View Post

Exclude Categories from Feed, Archives, Search, and Home page in WordPress

| January 14, 2010 | 3 Comments
We often find ourselves looking for the best and easiest way to exclude categories or pages from the navigation menu, the WordPress loop, the category list, the feed, the search, and/or the archive. It's so easy to forget one of these elements and accidentally let that category slip into the blogstream. We actually wrote ... View Post
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